I have officially SWITCHED!!!!
I am proud to say, I am not only an apple user in mind, but in body too(well 2-3 weeks) I placed my order at the apple store like 3 minutes ago. 17" iMac with 512,1 dimm sdram and an airport card installed. An external floppy drive, and the extended apple care protection plan.
There's this odd tingle I have now, and a blooming hatred for the PC that I still use(for 2-3 weeks). Currently the beige formica desk that my iMac will be sitting on is primed and waiting to be painted a gorgeous titanium color(benjamin moore 'ice cube grey') to match my grey and white room(all painted today and yesterday) I can't believe I actually designed my bedroom around a computer, but I guess it is the center piece
(competing with my record player)
Is there any must-have software(dear god, let it be inexpensive)?, I am ordering Norton System works, and adobe digital video colection is in the mail(500 dolors at an educational reseller!!!!!!!!
) Anything else I should just get?. . .
YAY!!! <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" /> (i can't beleive i've spent over 3,000 dollors in the last 24 hours)
There's this odd tingle I have now, and a blooming hatred for the PC that I still use(for 2-3 weeks). Currently the beige formica desk that my iMac will be sitting on is primed and waiting to be painted a gorgeous titanium color(benjamin moore 'ice cube grey') to match my grey and white room(all painted today and yesterday) I can't believe I actually designed my bedroom around a computer, but I guess it is the center piece
(competing with my record player)Is there any must-have software(dear god, let it be inexpensive)?, I am ordering Norton System works, and adobe digital video colection is in the mail(500 dolors at an educational reseller!!!!!!!!
) Anything else I should just get?. . . YAY!!!
<img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" /> (i can't beleive i've spent over 3,000 dollors in the last 24 hours)
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I wish I had money.
<strong>If I have a small 3-4 computer wireless network including the Orinoco bg-2000 gateway wireless server do I really need firewall software?, what will this do?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Your "gateway" has a firewall built-in and preconfigured to keep all incoming traffic out. If you need to setup port forwarding (so you can access your network from the outside), there is a web-based configuration interface.
<a href="http://www.spiderland.org"; target="_blank">www.spiderland.org</a>
freeware
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<a href="http://www.spiderland.org"; target="_blank">www.spiderland.org</a>
freeware</strong><hr></blockquote>
This things is weird.....
Also, Mac OS X comes with buitling firewall
and Watson, is a good piece of software, check versiontracker.com
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PreferencePanes
WindowShade X - free
TinkerTool - free
SharePoints - donationware
Utilities
Carbon Copy Cloner (if you have a second HDD and do back-ups) - free
Snapz Pro X - inexpensive
Stuffit Lite - free
General
BBEdit - Lite is free, academic full version is $80
Microsoft Office - academic version is $200
Internet Related
OmniWeb - nagware
Chimera/Navigator - free
Mozilla - free
Windows Media Player - free
DivX Alpha 3 - decoder is free
RealOne Player - free
Watson - $29
I'm sure there's more, but I can't think right now.
If you're doing serious video stuff, Discreet Cleaner 6 will be out shortly. Academic pricing will be around $200...
[ 09-02-2002: Message edited by: Eugene ]</p>
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Originally posted by Rick1138:
breve
<a href="http://www.spiderland.org"; target="_blank">www.spiderland.org</a>
freeware
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This things is weird...
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It is the future here now.Jon Klein is a fantasic programmer,check out the code in the sample simulations,some of the best written I have ever seen.
When i was switching.... i started to hate winzoz soooo much.. but i didn't have money so i just decided i didnt want to format at least once a month.. i 'simply' installed RedHat on my old laptop.. and made it behave like OS
It's not bad.. just that when i found the drivers to the lucent modem i switched to an adsl modem ...
Now the Macs are luvly
Ehehe! The friends are tellong i'm different since i switched... happier etc
...like that left-wing nut who became a right-wing nut...David Horowitz? No, not the consumer advocate one with the Fight Back TV show. Heh.
<strong>Must have software:
PreferencePanes
WindowShade X - free
TinkerTool - free
SharePoints - donationware
[ 09-02-2002: Message edited by: Eugene ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Windowshade is NOT free.
*unless it changed*
[ 09-03-2002: Message edited by: gumby5647 ]</p>
The Genie/Suck minimizations are so much better looking...
<strong>Welcome to Macintosh. :cool:
I wish I had money.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Holy crap, ain't that damn truth!!!! I'm still using my Wallstreet. I'll take donations...